Surname statistics for Sykes

There are approximately 23,367 people named Sykes in the UK. That makes it the 430th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 370 are named Sykes.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)23367430N/A370
United Kingdom (1881 census)143702830.048480
Change since 1881+8997-147-0.011-110
Other Countries
United States264251214N/A98
Australia1923851N/A118

Politics

People with the surname Sykes are about as likely to be politicians as the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Sykes are:

  1. Conservative (3)
  2. Liberal Democrat (3)
  3. Labour (1)
  4. Green (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Sykes
John Sykes
Richard Sykes
Paul Sykes
Peter Sykes
Andrew Sykes
Christopher Sykes
Stephen Sykes
Michael Sykes
Robert Sykes
Graham Sykes
Anthony Sykes
Alan Sykes
Mark Sykes
Ian Sykes
Jonathan Sykes
James Sykes
Philip Sykes
Matthew Sykes
William Sykes

Top female forenames

Susan Sykes
Helen Sykes
Patricia Sykes
Christine Sykes
Margaret Sykes
Catherine Sykes
Elizabeth Sykes
Carol Sykes
Angela Sykes
Linda Sykes
Sarah Sykes
Nicola Sykes
Victoria Sykes
Amanda Sykes
Jennifer Sykes
Pamela Sykes
Emma Sykes
Mary Sykes
Barbara Sykes
Karen Sykes

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.